About childhood cancer

3,600 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK. That's ten every day.

The types of cancer affecting children are quite different from the cancers that affect teenagers and young adults (TYA); TYA cancers are different again from the types of cancer that typically affect adults aged 25+.

Thanks to investment in research and treatment, survival has increased dramatically over the past 50 years and more than three quarters of young cancer patients can be successfully treated.